I'm posting on here to hear some advice from the pros, people who have been there and done that.
I'm currently a junior in Computer Science, minoring in Math. I'm sitting on two different offers from ...

I'm working with a binary structure, the goal of which is to index the significance of specific bits for any character encoding so that we may trigger events while doing specific checks against the ...

I am doing some investigating and research into programming "big data", and am particularly interested in QuantCast (QFS) because it is written in my own favourite programming language, C++.
Looking ...

I have a very big file delimited by some sequence of characters '*L*I*N*E'. The file will be of the order of 250G. And each line comes around 600bytes to 1000 bytes. I will be performing the following ...

Imagine you're writing some sort of Web Analytics system - you're recording raw page hits along with some extra things like tagging cookies etc and then producing stats such as
Which pages got most ...

I'm thinking of scientific applications that are mostly processor-bound and heavy on heap usage (at least several gigabytes). Any other time of the year I would happily go with C++, but in this case I ...